Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Disclosure by Michael Crichton

When I first started reading this book I was sceptical because it wasn't Crichton's usual science fiction. This book is centered on corporate politics and sexual harassment. A high level male executive gets passed over for a promotion by a woman. The woman sexually harasses him. He then finds himself with a serious problem. How can he keep his current position, how can he address the issue of harassment by a female superior, and can he figure out the political reasons why he was placed in that position in the first place? The book presents interesting statistics from 1994. At which time about 5% of all the reported cases of sexual harassment were made by men about female superiors. Doesn't sound like very many but, at that time only about 5% of top level executives were women. This then suggested that the rate of harassment by women was the same as for men. Makes me wonder if it's the same or worse now?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Was the movie based off of this book? Sounds the same. I haven't read the book but the movie was pretty good!

lori said...

I read that the movie was from this book but, haven't seen it.

Burpykitty said...

I think the movie starred Michael Douglas and Demi Moore. The book sounds interesting.